Romanian meter-plunderers on the loose as Irish low-security prisons breeched again

Two Romanian brothers who escaped from what's been described as a low security part of Castlerea Prison are on the loose, prompting a nationwide search for the pairThe meter-plunderers' escape is the second time this year that inmates have made a dash from detention facilities that certainly wouldn't give Alcatraz a run for its money: this April three escapees had to be re-captured after evading security personnel at an 'open prison', a kind of penal bed-and-breakfast where inmates are given a key to their own cells and trusted not to escapePolice chiefs after that incident were forced into making an embarrassing apology when it emerged that the convict in question had made an escape from the same facility just several years previouslyThis morning's unusually courteous escapees, Toader Feier (23) and his brother Basile (28), even left prison authorities a fond goodbye note, explaining 'we are sorry, but we had no choice Read more